So why not just not subscribe to news focused (especially US news focused) communities?

I don’t understand why people have such trouble with this. I have curated my own feed of subscribed communities and I already only see stuff I want to see. Is this really that difficult? Don’t want US news? Don’t sub to US-centric news communities (whether in name or not). Don’t want furries? Don’t subscribe to furry communities? Don’t want anime? Don’t subscribe to anime communities. Don’t want politics? Don’t subscribe to political communities. Don’t want memes? Don’t subscribe to meme communities. I genuinely don’t understand why that’s not enough for people.

You could have big writing “FOR DEMONSTRATION PURPOSES ONLY” all over it and you’d be suprised at how few would actually fucking read that text.

Chris Hughes sucks almost as much as Zuckerberg. He fucked up his tenure as owner of The New Republic. He’s just as much of a worthlessn rich dickbag.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/inside-collapse-new-republic

He also literally killed a story on Apple’s tax dodging calling the story tone deaf in response to Tim Cook coming out as gay as though those two things aren’t mutually exclusive.

Asking “so what do you do for a living?” when meeting someone new as if their job defines them. It’s one of the first questions Americans will ask someone when meeting them for the first time. I am American, but as I understand it, this question is far less common elsewhere in the world.

Everything ends with carcinization. It’s just evolution, bro.

Rust enjoyers are Crab People.

ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world

I prefer hot water bottles but that’s just me.

I know that electric blankets are much safer than they used to be but I have a lot of anxiety related to fire, so just not for me.

“Damn and blast British Telecom,” shouted Dirk, the words coming easily from force of habit.

-Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, 1987

I’m glad BT is still keeping the tradition of being absolutely rubbish alive.

They pulled down the Bolivian President’s plane just on the mere suspicion thet Edward Snowden was on board.

The flight was rerouted to Austria when Italy, France, and Spain denied the flight access to their airspace.

So we know it’s possible.

Dragon sickness

Y is a vowel?

EDIT: I love how all these responses have instances of y being a vowel.

Only I’m awake so far, I haven’t been able to sleep. Had several nightmares about my ex and stayed up a little while crying about it and missing her since it’s Christmas. I suspect the day coming will be fairly boring, spending it with family, we’re all too broke for presents, but we’re going to have a nice meal and spend time together, so there’s that.

The no ventilation at all is *chef’s kiss

Also really loving the half-ass hot glue and staple job where there’s no structure beyond “this needs a staple somewhere.”

10/10 junkbox

Does it matter if they don’t get a tax break? They’re still generally billion dollar companies.

In my town there’s mostly Safeways, which are owned by Albertsons, which is owned by Cerberus Capital Management, which has something like $65 billion in assets and a net worth of $3 billion. I don’t give a flying fuck if they don’t get a tax break, they could just make the fucking donations on behalf of their fucking customers since they have so much god damned money.

EDIT: Albertsons gets 34 million weekly customers. That’s around 1.7 billion yearly customers. They could make a dollar donation for every customer for a year and still be worth 1.3 billion.

Borders are just arbitrary lines anyway. Nations as an idea didn’t exist until the fall of monarchy driven empires. We are all humans, we are all part of the greater human experience. I say again, borders are just arbitrary lines that don’t exist functionally in the real world and are only enforced by governments. When governments fall, do the lines even matter anymore? Should they have mattered to begin with?

It seems a bit silly to obsess over because you also didn’t choose your birth parents or what country you were born in. That is just as random as anything else in your existence. The farther you go back the more absurd it becomes. What if your great grandparents had emmigrated to Finland? Would you be Finnish? In the end, does it even matter?

I suggest living the life you are experiencing in the here and now and remember that the lines between humans mean nothing other what we decide they mean, because other than oceans dividing the western and eastern hemispheres, there are no real dividing lines in nature. Focus on the future, not the past.

All right I think we got a lot accomplished here today, we’ll pick this up again tomorrow.

Not just reverse psychology, I can’t imagine anyone agreeing with most of these. It’s definitely got a holier-than-thou attitude. Like who is this even written for other than people who already use Linux and just want to feel smugly superior?

I have had great luck with a 6600XT myself, but your mileage may vary. There seems to be a fair amount of variance in terms of which AMD cards have solid footing in Linux and which games they work well with. I haven’t had any issues but I generally don’t play visually demanding games.

Also, if you ever want to roll out your own local LLM, you’re just going to have better performance with an Nvidia card, as ROCm just seems to not be quite up to snuff at speedy work.